Year: 2026

An article that cuts through the royal rhetoric, the empty speeches, and the polished performances, that looks at King Charles’s address to the US Congress and sees it for what it is: a masterclass in […]

ACOSS and UNSW Sydney-led Poverty and Inequality Partnership Media Release Concerns about poverty in Australia are rising as cost-of-living pressures hit hard, with a majority of people agreeing income support payments are not enough to […]

By Walt Zlotow   In a poker game with Iran’s unified, determined, winning government, Trump is playing 52 Pick-Up Trump loves to bleat the US is winning his criminal war on Iran. The opposite is true. […]

By Jack Arnold   There is media speculation and press leaks that the 2026 Federal Budget will include changes to both Negative Gearing (NG) and the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) to curb the massive inflow of […]

Intellectual giants are in painfully short supply in the Trump administration, but if there was anyone who might lay claim to cerebral weight of any sort, Elbridge Colby might be one of them. Self-styled as […]

Dedication: To my wife ‘S’ who has seen the garden through the flames. The View from the Edge There is a dangerous assumption in Australian political culture: that the island is a fortress, that the […]

By Walt Zlotow   Apparently, State Dept. legal advisor Reed Rubinstein didn’t get Trump’s memo to erase Israel’s major involvement in Trump’s failed war on Iran. It’s bad enough the war is a complete failure, accomplishing […]

This piece is written as a tribute to the late Martin Amis, who found moral depravity widespread but never ordinary: a thing to be anatomised, mocked, named, and held up to the cold light of […]

I nearly choked on my vanilla slice. There was Donald Trump, sitting down with 60 Minutes, solemnly warning that America has become more violent because of the language used by Democrats. For a moment, I […]

By Steve Davis In 1943 the eminent physicist Erwin Schrodinger gave a series of lectures in Dublin that were later published in book form under the title What Is Life? Its success was considerable as […]

By Walt Zlotow   President Trump has a bizarre way of demonstrating his claim of being the Peace President deserving the Nobel Peace Prize. He spent his first term raining down tens of thousands of bombs […]